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The Buford Lady Jackets softball team returns a strong cast from the 2017 team, which finished as the Class AA state runner-up last spring.
BHS, 23-6, returns seven starters on the team, which fell to Latta for the Class AA state title after winning the Class AA state crown in 2016.
Veteran coach Lael Allen has a solid group of players back for the new season.
Senior Kristin Wemes, a team veteran, is back at catcher where Hannah Boone will also see playing time.

The Lancaster County Parks and Recreation 10U girls basketball all-stars were brilliant Saturday in Mullins.

The Lancaster County 10U stars captured the state championship with a sweep of the state field at the Mullins Recreation Center.

The Lancaster County stars, the Central District champions, brought home the state title trophy with a pair of impressive wins – 37-10 over Wahalla, the Western District champ, and 39-15 over North Charleston, the Southern District titlist.

Lancaster High School first-year softball head coach Erin Walker sports a solid cast of players for the 2018 season and high hopes.

LHS, 20-4 last season when it went 19-2 in regular-season play, features a strong host of returning starters to the blue and gold fold.

“I am truly looking forward to this season and I am excited as a first year coach to be with this group of girls. I think we have a great road ahead of us and I am glad I get to be a part of this with them,” Walker said.

The Buford High School men’s varsity soccer team won its first home match of the season, taking a 3-0 win over Lancaster on Wednesday night.

The match was the first contest on the new artificial turf, installed last summer.

In the first half, BHS senior midfielder Blaine Gossman scored a goal around the 20th minute off an assist from fellow senior Bryton Davis, who had just returned from a serious toe injury suffered in the pre-season Capital City Cup Tournament in Columbia.

I challenge you to read this. It is heartbreaking.
Every ten minutes, a child in Yemen dies of starvation and/or disease. There is an immense humanitarian disaster there, and aid is not able to be delivered, a primary reason being the Saudi presence there.
Yet the United States is helping the Saudis by supplying their efforts. The war there has nothing to do with our national security, nothing to do with ISIS or Al Qaeda.

The Lancaster Bruins opened Region III-AAAA, dropping a tough 1-0 loss to Westwood High School at the Red Hawks’ field in Blythewood on Thursday night.
The game was originally set for Tuesday, but reset due to rain and wet playing conditions.
Lancaster High pitcher Raul Garcia-Mora, who worked six innings, took the loss.
He posted seven strikeouts and allowed no earned runs and two walks.
The Bruins, 3-2 on the season, had four hits on the night – singles from Austin Catoe, Logan Phillips, Buddy Howard and Jarren Taylor.

Don’t let VTIL fool you into incorporating, Indian Land.
Voters for a Town of Indian Land is trying to pit you and everyone else in Indian Land against the county of Lancaster to get you to vote for incorporation. They’re using terms like Indian Land is the cash cow for Lancaster, and saying Indian Land gets nothing from Lancaster.
It should be common sense that an area that probably is more densely populated with probably higher home values than any other in the county, will pay more in taxes. That does not make the other areas less deserving.